Pag» 2 Portland Obaarver, February 23, 1983
Woman heads Universal Life
M E M P H IS , TENNESSEE— In a
precedent-breaking move, the
Board o f Director« of Universal Life
Insurance Company, meeting Feb
ruary 11 at the company*« Memphis
headquarters, elected Patricia
Walker Shaw as the company’s new
president. Twelve new officers were
also elected. M s. Shaw, form erly
Universal's Executive Vice Presi
dent, becomes the third chief execu
tive in the firm 's 6O-year history,
and the first woman to head a major
American life insurance organiza
tion.
Universal L ife is the nation's
fourth largest black-owned insur
ance company, with assets of over
$62 million and over $610 million ol
insurance in force. Thirty-six
branch offices service policyholders
across the country.
Patricia Walker Shaw's election
to the presidency was announced by
retiring President A. Maceo W alk
er, her father, at a press conference
following the board's decision. “ I
am very pleased that my chosen suc-
cessor is such a highly experienced
and proven executive," W alker
said. “ A leader who knows our bus
iness from the bottom u p .. .who
has the kind o f forw ard-looking
ideas the company will need in the
years ahead."
Ms. Shaw comes to the Presi
dent's office after 17 years o f ad
vancement through the ranks at
Universal Life.
Patricia Shaw's own development
as a business leader has not gone un
noticed. Later this year she will be
come president of the National In
surance Association. She has served
as Chairperson of the Board of D i
rectors of the Federal Reserve Bank,
Memphis Branch. Tennessee Gover
nor Lamar Alexander named her to
the State Commission on Minority
Economic Development and the
Memphis/Shelby County Jobs Ad
visory Commission. She serves on a
number o f boards in her native
Mem phis, and is currently in her
tenth year on the board of Memphis
Light, Gas and Water Division.
PATRICIA W SHAW
Neighborhood grants available
by Robert Lothian
Grants of up to $5,000 for com
munity self-help projects are avail
able through the Portland Bureau of
Community Development "Neigh
borhood Self-Help Program "
Purpose o f the program, accord
ing to a Bureau publication, "is to
help residents of low and moderate
income neighborhoods develop the
capacity to help themselves by
assisting neighborhood-based pro
jects that demonstrate ways to re
duce the cost of some basic need."
Projects should involve "v o lu n
teer labor, donated materials, and
evidence o f involvement o f those
neighborhood residents affected by
the projects," and should "lead to a
self-sustaining com m unity based
activity, or in the case of physical
improvem ent projects, have a
lasting impact on the community."
Neighborhood associations, com
m unity based and n on -p ro fit
organizations are eligible to apply,
according to program coordinator
Dee Walsh.
The self-help grants make avail
able "seed money" for implement
ing new ideas that might not other
wise have a chance, said Walsh.
" It allows groups that don't have
a sophisticated structure or a paid
staff a chance to get started." she
said. A fte r the first success, she
said, a group may then feel capable
ol taking on larger projects.
"Neighborhood groups often get
started by working against some
th in g ," said Walsh. The self-help
program, on the other hand, "gives
groups a chance to do something
positive in their neighborhood," she
said.
Last year's recipients, according
to Walsh, were the Center for U r
ban Education's Shared Housing
Program . N orth Portland Youth
Service C enter's Project Assist,
Eliot Energy House (operated by
Responsible Urban Neighborhood
Technology), and the Brooklyn
Community Garden.
Money for the grants is being
made available through Portland's
$9 million share of federal Depart
ment o f Housing and Com munity
Development (H C D ) funds. H C D
was created in 1974 to revitalize low-
income urban communities. In
Portland, $90 million has been in
vested in housing, street and side
walk improvements, planting street
trees, and helping to rebuild and re
model parks.
Neighborhood self-help grant ap
plications are available from the
Bureau o f C om m unity Develop
ment, 1120 SW 5th, Rm. 1120,
Portland, OR 97204. Deadline for
applying if Feb. 28. and grants will
be awarded by the City Council a f
ter April 1st.
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such as Neighbor Fair and Black
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In the summer o f 1983 IF C C is
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FCC's funding runs out. We need
peopleHor fundraising projects and
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